The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.